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…to think you can’t have a Gingerbread PERSON?!

131 replies

NellesVilla · 02/12/2022 21:09

Lighthearted-ish.

Now I know there are more important issues to contend with, but honestly…

Bloody Sainsbury’s acting like twats calling a Gingerbread Man a Gingerbread Person. How utterly ridiculous is this, and who on earth came up with this? I’m hoping this batshit employee was fired shortly after. Why? What was the point?

I am fuming- absolutely incandescent with rage- and the children are crying (not mine as I don’t have any).

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QuestionableMouse · 02/12/2022 23:22

You've just reminded me that I have two in the kitchen.

Q2C4 · 02/12/2022 23:36

They can't do that or the song won't scan properly! "Run run run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread person" just doesn't sound the same...

mumda · 02/12/2022 23:49

crussont · 02/12/2022 21:12

It would be good if they could make some with a missing limb

You can dismember then yourself.

Full moon. Half moon. Total eclipse.

fruktsoda · 02/12/2022 23:55

"Gingerbread person" sounds foolish to me, so I'll continue calling them men. Unless they wear dresses, in which case they are women. It doesn't come up often, because we prefer the round ones...

ChiefWiggumsBoy · 02/12/2022 23:57

I see 90% of the people on your thread have had a sense of humour bypass @NellesVilla

Never will I ever call a gingerbread man a gingerbread person. They’re all men. Whether they’re wearing skirts or not!

Orangesatsuma · 03/12/2022 00:01

Does that mean we also need to change the rhyme to ‘run, run as fast as you can, you can’t catch me I’m the gingerbread person’?

It is utterly ridiculous.

TooBigForMyBoots · 03/12/2022 00:01

As the very intelligent posters before have said, Person doesn't rhyme or scan well.

YABU OP.

Mañanarama · 03/12/2022 00:02

mumda · 02/12/2022 23:49

You can dismember then yourself.

Full moon. Half moon. Total eclipse.

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The original story was printed in 1875, and the gingerbread man got chased and eaten by a fox. He cries as he is devoured, "I'm quarter gone...I'm half gone...I'm three-quarters gone...I'm all gone!". Not surprised they took that bit out for the childrens books.

As for calling it a gingerbread person, it’s just batshit. Do we have to de-gender every other nursery rhyme / book / song / poem ever written?

ErrolTheDragon · 03/12/2022 00:05

RichardMarxisinnocent · 02/12/2022 21:21

At my local Sainsburys they sell a 2 pack of gingerbread people, one is a gingerbread woman the other a gingerbread man. I don't see a problem with gingerbread people.

Isn't that a bit heteronormative?

RedToothBrush · 03/12/2022 00:08

A genderbread person has the default male shape.

Its got no curves. Instead we've got a gingerbread body with a skirt. And they are the same size.

And ironically Sainsburys are flogging these in pairs with stereotypical pink dress and blue shorts which hardly seems to be promoting genderless gingerbread to me.

It seems the sales pitch and the reality are completely at odds with each other.

Gingerbread men don't shove this nonsense down my face.

If you are going to go with gingerbread people, I want proper representation of womens bodies not their clothes and not with the sodding pink.

Its a scam!

…to think you can’t have a Gingerbread PERSON?!
TerfranosaurusVagina · 03/12/2022 00:19

Run, run, faster than Elle McPherson,
You can't catch me I'm the gingerbread person.

The question is how fast can Elle McPherson run?

Mañanarama · 03/12/2022 00:23

It’s not even a dress, it’s a pink swimsuit. He has sunnies on with his blue trunks. Bit at odds with the winter season.

ErrolTheDragon · 03/12/2022 00:35

Mañanarama · 03/12/2022 00:23

It’s not even a dress, it’s a pink swimsuit. He has sunnies on with his blue trunks. Bit at odds with the winter season.

They look pretty tanned tbf

Longtimelurkerfinallyposts · 03/12/2022 01:06

Gingerbread people have been around for decades - YABVU
and sexist to assume they're all 'male' because they're not wearing a skirt.

You can make/ buy/ eat them, and still sing songs about gingerbread men if you like.

But I'd swerve those monstrosities from Sainsburys. There is absolutely no need for more stuff ramming pink/blue stereotypes down our throats.

azimuth299 · 03/12/2022 01:46

The gingerbread man in the rhyme is male and a specific gingerbread person. There are other gingerbread people available. HTH.

SiobhanSharpe · 03/12/2022 02:04

But if you had a choice surely you'd chose a gingerbread MAN, (i.e. an anatomically correct gingerbread man) cos you'd get a bit more biscuit for your money, wouldn't you?

TimeToFlyNow · 03/12/2022 02:14

azimuth299 · 03/12/2022 01:46

The gingerbread man in the rhyme is male and a specific gingerbread person. There are other gingerbread people available. HTH.

Thos is what I was thinking

bridgetreilly · 03/12/2022 02:18

YANBU to think it should be a gingerbread man.
YABU to be incandescent with rage about it. Save your rage for things that matter.

NewBootsAndRanty · 03/12/2022 02:25

Are Parkin Pigs still a thing?

CuriousEats · 03/12/2022 02:44

SiobhanSharpe · 03/12/2022 02:04

But if you had a choice surely you'd chose a gingerbread MAN, (i.e. an anatomically correct gingerbread man) cos you'd get a bit more biscuit for your money, wouldn't you?

I dunno. If you had an anatomically correct female with a hairy foof and size kk boobs you should be at least even. Unless your gingerbread man is a bodybuilder.

MNMH · 03/12/2022 03:24

It's. A. Cookie.

LynetteScavo · 03/12/2022 06:53

Run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm a gingerbread person.

FixTheBone · 03/12/2022 07:03

It should be a gingerbread figure if they really want to avoid man / woman, given its an inanimate biscuit and doesn't have a gender identity....

Madness I tell thee

LynetteScavo · 03/12/2022 07:11

But in the story, the man and woman wanted a child, so they baked a gingerbread boy....so why did the gingerbread boy say he was a man? He was no such thing, he was a naughty child.

I guess if they sell gingerbread people, small children can imagine they are boy/girl/man/woman.

Tombero · 03/12/2022 07:23

Allegra Mcevedy made Gingerbread families in one of her cookbooks.

…to think you can’t have a Gingerbread PERSON?!
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